Description
When a New York lawyer needs to take on another copyist, it is Bartleby who responds to his advertisement, and arrives "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." At first a diligent employee, he soon begins to refuse work, saying only "I would prefer not to." So begins the story of Bartleby—passive to the point of absurdity yet paradoxically extremely disruptive—which rapidly turns from farce to inexplicable tragedy. Accompanying Bartleby , Benito Cereno was first serialized in 1855, and centers around a slave rebellion on board a Spanish merchant ship in 1799.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
184 pages
Language
English
Published
Oct 28, 2007
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Editions
847 editions
ISBN-10
1843911566
ISBN-13
9781843911562